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the said councill of agents, after mature debate, did put the several votes following:
1st. Whether those regiments, troopes, or companyes, who are to be next reduced, shall have their full satisfaction in lands according to the Act rates.
2. Whether the lands to be given out to such part of the army as are to be reduced, shall be assigned them out of their respective lotts, as they have been allready cast.
Whether the respective provinciall divisions, and the subdivisions, shall agree among themselves, what point or angle those who are to be disbanded shall begin to sitt downe att.
With another resolve for satisfaction of him who attended this councill.
The several petitions, reports, &c., mentioned in the said summary, or the chief of them, are these following:
to the right honourable the lord deputy and councille.
- The humble Petition of the severall Agents of the Army, whose Names are here subscribed, in behalf e of themselves and the Regiments, with other Part of the Army, which they respectively represent,
Sheweth,
That your petitioners doe most thankefully acknowledge your honours vigilancy and care of them, and, as in generall, soe in particular for the satisfaction of the debt of the army, as a reward of their faithfull services. In order to which, your Lordshipps were pleased to appoint a committee to state the debt and creditt of the army, uppon whose report thereof, and tender to your Lordshipps, that there would be three-fourths of satisfaction for the army, your honours were pleased afterwards to referr the said report unto two agents for each province, which were to be chosen by some agents then at the head quarters; uppon consideration of which report, the said committee of agents finding that uppon the rule and estimate of the civill survey, together with the deductions made for claimes, the lands would fall short of its full satisfaction, they did report and propound unto your honours that two-thirds of the debt might at present be
